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The Power of Thin Film

With a workforce of over 300 employees and an impressive 80,000 square feet plant located at Dabaspet, near Bangalore, HHV Solar is India’s first company to manufacture automated production lines of thin-film amorphous silicon solar photovoltaic modules.

  • May 2010
  • By Ch. Srinivas Rao and Vantika Dixit

With a workforce of over 300 employees and an impressive 80,000 square feet plant located at Dabaspet, about 50 kilometers from Bangalore, Hind High Vacuum (HHV) Solar is India’s first company to manufacture the automated production lines of thin-film amorphous silicon (a-Si) solar photovoltaic (SPV) modules. HHV’s in-house facility has an annual capacity of 10 Megawatts to make one square meter size SPV glass modules. Each module has a power output of 60 peak Watts. The advantage of thin-film a-Si solar modules: they can even work in diffused light instead of sunlight, just as solar calculators work.

PRECISION A fourteen-chamber plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) system to deposit a-Si layers on coated glass sheets for solar applications. After the initial start up time of 1 hour 24 minutes, the 24-hour running production line can produce two modules in every six minutes.
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